Understanding Intangible Aspects of Cultural Heritage: The Role of Active Imagination

• Published in: The historic environment (London) Vol. 9; no. 3-4; pp. 207 - 228
• Main Author: Alves, Susana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.10.2018
• Subjects: active imagination; Carl Jung; cultural heritage; Ibn 'Arabi; intangible heritage; Perception; UNESCO

Despite an undoubted awareness of the intangible aspects of culture in heritage studies, scholars continue to base their understanding of intangible heritage according to rationalist theories of perception, which accept only a single mode of perception-that which is bound to the empirical, sensorial...